O' Maley Birthday Party

Renting the Hockey Rink with Pizza

By: Melissa de Haan Cummings - Jul 14, 2015

I like those boots with the fur on topIt looks like animal furbut they probably washed themor they'd be gross

The reason I didn't see yourtennis moves is I was occupiedwith the iPad I did find that wordyou and Riley were stuck onO great! What was it?I can't remember nowThe best place to shoot isYou want to know the best place to shoot?when the goalie's in the butterflyaim over the pads above his calvesPass a snack machine triggeringthe need to put the credit cardinto it and choose pretzel likeshapes such as hearts barely highenough to put the magic into the slotCarol Figurido comes down the stepsIs that Melissa? teaches Dylanto turn the strip and swipeand the orange bag stirstumbles to the bottomAre those pretzels?It has cheese in itThey aren't bad for you

On the road to Ipswichsee sticks and a shovelin the snow hung withpails and bucketsfor mail collection

I'm so excited for the birthday party!O you should be! Renting the whole rink!They're going to have pizza and cake!Your favorite food! Pizza is firstchocolate ice cream is secondcake is third and broccoli is fourI like broccoli! I do too!It makes me go to the bathroom!You have to go to the bathroomYou feel lighter and have more energy!

I've never been up these stairs beforeI know all of this whole rinkI'll show you the high schooldressing room! There it is!Nobody knows what's in there!It's locked and my friendsthink I'm not here becauseI always dress in thereDad has the key

You tie skates good!Nice and tight! Tie my ownreluctantly nervouslytake up my stick andask how you open the doormove to the ice and feelthe right skate is loosereturn retie try for morefind pucks on the netshoot weak shots on a boywho blocks with milk cratesgather confidence skate outa bit see and share with a dadof my ability play goal tenderfind my shoulders stuckon the top shelf after sendinga few pucks out to be reshotskate the length of the rinkwhen I wonder how much moreit is already only six minutesI could use another half hourenjoy sending wayward pucksback to the net milk cratesoff ice. Sata! Your stick handlingis better without skates!O yeah! Did you have fun?O yeah!

Join two young men and an olderto find out the slot is the areain front of the goal the bestplace to shoot frombut it's always crowded!The hash marks on the circlesdefine where each team goeslike the key on the basketball courtTurns out they know Ri Dylantells me one of these guys isJared Favazza whose grandmaI chat with is cousin to is itColby Jewell on Riley's teamFavazza captain of the high schoolteam won in Bedford todayis ten four and four may playConcord Carlisle who have nine winsPlayoffs coming and Dylan hasa playoff in Lynn on Sunday

Talking to a father who lives up the streetcongratulated because I didn't fall downhow his girl did well skatingwithout holding the boardscoming from New Hampshireand twenty years in Arizonasingle and not finding the city lifehoped for in Somervillehis buddy from WenhamTold him dont go back toArizona check out the North ShoreThe North Shore what's that?renting a house in Magnoliawith two people met on Craig's Listfinding Magnolia stunningthen married on The Little Heater Roadhe didn't call it that called itMagnolia Avenue too busyand close to the road you had toget in the car to take the dogfor a walk drive three minutesfirst and no place to ride a bikeunreal traffic all the timehow he quit the gym when daughterscame along joined the Y a kidpractises gymnastics thereso he can work out he used to seeme at the MAC am I still theredoes the former owner still own itstill married to that womanwho works out fifty hours a dayisn't doing well had a second major surgeryto remove cancer all through his abdomenis the same age as the fatherI say about Josh doing wellhe says about two of his peersdoing well should have been deadturns out he met Denise Recklehoff'sErica at The Blackburn TavernHah! The Blackburn Tavern!The Rhumb Line! Captain Carlo's!bought Nancy Newman's houseacross from her dad and momhow we watched it being assembledwhen my guys were say five and threeI felt so bad for the Newmans whenNancy and family returned to Floridathe father says they have come backlive near The WillowsThat's cracked I say I spent multiplehours at Denise's kitchen tablewho told me Scott Mhic Neillhad passed she sitting on thefence rail at Plum Cove Beachwith her arm in a sling waitingwith a big guy for a rideto the funeral and she stilldrives a CATA bus

the dad goes to find his second graderI spy Ama Irene talkingCanadian French to the babyrebuke her for not skatingshe didn't want to disturb meenvy the people still skatingDylan sees teammate number elevenwhose dad is a beautiful skater

Home to Daddy and Rileywho was missed during his overnightHappy to have hockey practisein a few hours play hockey on Wiifirst while Dad snuggles on the big bedbeneath a navy colored comforterthis coldest day of the year